the term “slop” has been so successful as a way of dismissing AI content with the appropriate level of care (none, as nobody who cared made the slop) that I’m starting to see AI boosters try to change the meaning of the word. it’s important to push back when you see these information colonizers:
- insist that genuine human effort is slop because it isn’t to their taste (ie the new Mario movie)
- claim that their AI output isn’t slop because they “checked” it and found it to be particularly good
also, not that most people need the reminder, but AI boosters are out of their fucking minds and have no ability to evaluate quality.
you really don’t need to believe these conmen when they pretend a successful movie is on the same level as the trash they’re pushing.
you also don’t need to believe they’re checking their AI outputs in any way that matters. the point of LLMs and generative AI is to create spam. if they were into putting in effort, they’d do it without the AI.
I shouldn’t have to say this because this isn’t even a thread about the Mario movie but uhhhh
you’re allowed to not like it. I liked it, but there’s valid reasons to not like the movie on its own merits, to refuse to see it because Nintendo sues its own fans into lifelong debt, or to avoid it due to Illumination’s previous work
making up a version of the movie that doesn’t exist and then declaring it’s slop because that fake version sucks is fucking wild and I will make fun of you
also, even bad art is still art as long as it’s completed with human effort and care
like especially in movies, there’s so many awful movies that came out and had zero impact and got rediscovered decades later and enjoyed as outsider art
there’s movies that came out and were fantastic but got terrible reviews, and now they’re considered some of the best movies ever released because genuine art can be re-evaluated later (see also The Thing, which bombed so hard Carpenter almost quit films)
the Mario movie isn’t high art, it’s not particularly deep
and honestly thank fuck for that. not all art needs to push boundaries. sometimes you paint a really fucking good landscape and somebody hangs it in front of their toilet to stare at while they take a dump. most art ends up like that. it’s still art.
@zzt I feel like one thing it did particularly well was to incorporate scenes where they did exactly the thing they did in the game, without making it feel super awkward
I think the Sonic movies are way better tho
@jordan I really liked how the music built on the music from the games fairly naturally, and there were a bunch of minor gags throughout the film that were really well done and elevated the scenes they were in.
the sonic movies are surprisingly excellent! they added so much depth to the characters that the movie versions are the ones I think of first now. and I went into the first one prepared to hate it. I was so confused when like 15 minutes in I was like “wait I like this? it’s good????”
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